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J.R.'s Cold Spell Chills Knicks

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Chris Herring

May 10, 2013 9:00 p.m. ET

It hasn't been a particularly great week for Knicks guard J.R. Smith.

His most recent seven-day cycle began the way the last one ended: with poor shooting. And he lacked any deep well of sympathy among the team's fans. Many of them were disappointed with the report—which Smith calls wrong—that he went out to a local nightclub the evening before Sunday's Game 1 loss to Indiana. Adding insult to injury, the NBA slapped the 27-year-old...